Monday 30 November 2009

Freedom of Choice, Islam style

Remember the Iran protests? People questioning the legitimacy of the elections? Of course you do, media in the West were trumpeting it as the benefits of democracy.
Iran Election Protestors Sentenced To Death

Posted by
JacobSloan on November 30, 2009

Remember when young Iranians marched though the streets this past summer to protest Ahmadinejad’s questionable victory in the nation’s presidential election? The U.S. media has lost interest in the topic, but Al Jazeera actually still cares, and reports that some of the protesters are now being sentenced to death:

Iran has sentenced five people to death and 81 others to prison terms of up to 15 years in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed June’s disputed presidential election, state television says.

Offenses includ[ed] security violations, agitating against the Islamic Republic, violating law and order, damaging public and private property, and assaulting civilians and security forces.

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